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14/04/2011
Jewish instrumental Folk Music
A reference work on Klezmer music, translated and edited by Mark Slobin, Robert Rothstein and Michael Alpert, including many music transcriptions and a CD …
14/04/2011
Jewish Identities
The writor, Klára Móricz, studies the concepts of the Jewish identity, rebuilding our comprehension of « Jewish music », as a growth of utopian ideologies, nationalism, racism …
14/04/2011
Klezmer Studies
Here is a new method in the teaching of klezmer clarinet. Or how to face the first technical difficulties with simple and melodic pieces, composed in the spirit of klezmer music? …
14/04/2011
Musiques juives
See Jean-François Lévy's review “From Tradition to Contemporary Composition” published in Diasporiques on March 13, 2011, on the latest recordings in the Musical Heritage of French Jews collection …
14/04/2011
Kol Nidré – 8 visions
Apart from the traditional Ashkenazi version of Kol Nidre played by Armand Benhamou and the Copernic Choral Ensemble, this CD offers seven other musical versions of the famous Yom Kippur prayer …
14/04/2011
Serge Kaufmann – Ima ou la mère dépossédée (IMA OR THE DISPOSSESSED MOTHER)
Is it possible to write Jewish music without using one traditional theme? This is the bet taken, and won, by Serge Kaufmann, who gives us with this CD a work colored with strong Jewish accents …
14/04/2011
Jacques Grober – Yiddish songs from yesterday and today
Jacques Grober, one of the few French authors, composers and performers to have renewed the repertoire of Yiddish song over the last thirty years, writes songs about our lives …
14/04/2011
The teamim, signs to sing the Torah
by Jean-Philippe Amar, PhD in the University of Paris IV Sorbonne …
14/04/2011
Training of Music Teachers of Paris 2011
One day of training offering a wide panorama on the history of Jewish music with a conference hosted by Hervé Roten followed by a workshop of vocal and/or instrumental improvisation …
14/04/2011
Tribute concert to Shalom Berlinski
On December 5, 2010 at ULIF Copernic synagogue, film concert in tribute to Shalom Berlinski (1918-208) who was the first cantor of the Grande Synagogue de la Victoire (Paris) from 1948 to 1979 …